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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cool! It Takes Two is a great game; hopefully this lets more people enjoy it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

My wife and I played it. We bonded over how much we disliked Book lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice seeing a game not needing a third-party launcher, but instead just works with the Steam launcher.

~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Isn't Steam itself a third party launcher?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It most transactions, the 2 parties are the purchaser and the seller.

If you buy a game from Steam, using the steam launcher isn't a third-party launcher.
If you bought a game directly from EA, their launch isn't a third-party launcher.
If you bought the game from Steam, the EA launcher is third-party.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The steam launcher is still the third party launcher

If you buy an xbox game from gamestop, you expect to use the xbox launcher not the gamestop launcher

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The company that created/published the game is the first party.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yes, origin is the first party launcher

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But what is the first and second party then? It's all subject to the definition.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Here is to hoping the other way games follow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Reached out to EA to see if I could get my key transferred over. The answer was no, of course. But it’s still annoying that I get less for having bought sooner on their platform rather than waiting for it to be available on Steam.